Battle Tendency #25 - Birth of the Ultimate Being!

Why, hello again, good people! Fancy seeing you here… Do you come here often? Because I do. At least, lately. I trust you don’t have anything to object to that, yeah? I decided I’m going to finish Battle Tendency this week, so that I can finally, properly, actually tackle what I actually made this site for in the first place… Stardust Crusaders! So, without further ado… I hope you haven’t had enough of my comparisons, because today we’re going to take a look at episode #25 of Battle Tendency, “Birth of the Ultimate Being!”

Let’s get going!

Today’s first difference is Kars, whom in this shot is smaller and has been recoloured. The smoke coming off of his right arm is also slightly different:

Here, the shot is uncensored once again, there’s a distortion around the edges, the background is blurrier, there are more blood particles and there’s a dark vignette:

And the camera also shakes around more:

Death by squirrel (also a very good name for an indie death metal/dark cabaret band):

Kars’ butterfly-hand flaps its wings more:

Joseph is more centered here, and he’s also been retouched (although I preferred it when his nose was shaded):

Kars is looking even sluttier here:

Joseph has been redrawn, here:

MORE MAKE-UP:

Joseph has been redrawn again, here, and the background is also slightly closer:

Joseph is looking different here as well, and the clouds have been moved a little too (I never understand why they do it! Why move the clouds by a little bit?):

Back to Kars! Most lines in this shot are a little thicker, his face has been redrawn to comply a little more to the perspective, and the feathers on his headpiece are looking much better too

Here, have a smattering of Josephs:

A few frames are a little brighter, here:

This bit is a little sharper, the colours are a little more saturated and the camera shakes a little bit more:

And this is brighter and sharper:

Almost everything in this scene has been moved, retouched or scaled up/down… The plane control has been removed entirely! Have a look for yourself:

And again here (plus a different distortion):

This scene is more zoomed in:

Kars’ grizzly wounds have been uncensored here, there’s more blood particles, the wind effects are different and Kars has been also shaded differently:

Here, have a closer look at that mangled body:

And again here, plus a different overall shading:

LEMME GIVE YOU A HAND:

This animation is also a tiny bit sharper:

And, to tie this comparison up, say hi again to 石本峻一 (Ishimoto Shun’ichi), added at the bottom here:

Whew! Another one done… One more to go! I’m aiming to finish everything by the end of the week, but I could be off by a couple of days, if the next episode is another giga mammoth like some of the past ones. But I doubt it! Usually finales are well-animated and need little to no touch-ups (not you, Stardust Crusaders). Well, in any case, see you next time!